Wilhelm Tell

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Wilhelm Tell - by Friedrich Schiller - Premiere on February 11, 2023 - Schauspielhaus, Großes Haus - Drama

A people rehearsing the uprising against injustice. A gang of conspirators. A hunter and family man who wants little to do with it all. But he is forced to aim at the head of his own child in a cruel game - and against his will becomes the icon of a political struggle.

Friedrich Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell" tells the story of a struggle for freedom - that of a nation and that of the individual. It tells of the struggle for the freedom of a nation on the one hand and the inner freedom of the individual on the other - and like hardly any other poet in the German language, Schiller is able to inextricably link the private and the political.

Schiller's classic is a drama about how conditions can become unstable. It deals with the power of resistance and disobedience, the strength of the individual and the wildfire that a new political idea can ignite. It is also about the murder of tyrants and the need to fight against a world that has been set up wrong. Above all, it is a story about the price to be paid, the cost of freedom to each individual and who is able to shoulder this burden.

The director is Roger Vontobel, who has been acting director of the Theater Bern since 2021 and is familiar to the Düsseldorf audience through authoritative productions such as "Gilgamesh", "Rheingold" and "Hamlet". He is staging "Tell" with Florian Lange in the title role.